· Private foundation
Linda T Watson Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MERCY HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| MADDIE'S MISSION | $10,000 |
| HARVESTERS | $10,000 |
| THE FOLLY THEATER | $5,000 |
| KANSAS CITY PBS | $5,000 |
| THE NEW REFORM TEMPLE | $4,371 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $4,272 |
| KANSAS CITY HOSPICE | $3,000 |
| KANSAS CITY CHORALE | $3,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $2,600 |
| KEMPER MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| MAYO FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BARSTOW SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| UMKC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HTHARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK6× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +43%
- KCKANSAS CITY CHORALE6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +51%
- KCKAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS5× · 2019–2023 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TCThe Children's Mercy Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +47%
- TRTHE RABBIT HOLE KCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -2%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +50%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Connecting our community through live arts experiences that entertain, inspire, and engage
Our mission is to build brighter futures for children and adults with disabilities by providing comprehensive medical, therapeutic, educational, and vocational services.
We inspire thinkers from different disciplines to combine their efforts for a common purpose: healthcare innovation.(continued on schedule o)from bioinformatics to cancer research and beyond, we stimulate collaboration and help bring…
University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.
Its mission is to perform great performances for greater audiences. the kansas city symphony will achieve this mission by: - developing an uncompromising performance standard. - advancing the profile and value of the orchestra locally,…
To preserve and promote the enduring legacy of harry s. truman, america's 33rd president.
We build lifelong relationships that strengthen the university of kansas and the legacy of excellence embodied by its students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends.
The mission of kc care health center is to promote health and wellness by providing quality care, access, research and education to the underserved and all people in our community.
To create global passion for kansas city. we do this through sales and marketing efforts to attract visitors and conventions to kansas city.
To enrich the community by producing and presenting exceptional live theatre that touches the heart, engages the mind and delights the spirit.
The kansas city atrtists coalition is a nonprofit organization that promotes visual arts awareness
Kansas farm bureau exists to strengthen agriculture and the lives of kansans through advocacy, education, and service.
How this is measured
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY CHORALE ↗
- Who funds KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds PERFORMING ARTS FOUNDATION OF KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds Kansas City Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC TELEVISION 19 INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARSTOW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NELSON GALLERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UMKC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFEHOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE RABBIT HOLE KC ↗
- Who funds MIDWEST CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds QUALITY HILL PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HORIZON ACADEMY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Kansas City · Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation · Hartley Family Foundation · The Francis Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Richard J Stern Foundation for the Arts Commerce Bank Trustee · John W and Effie E Speas Memorial Trust · G Kenneth and Ann Baum Philanthropic Fund · Buttonwood Foundation Charitable Tr · Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation · Greater Horizons
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Linda T Watson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Linda T Watson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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